Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Borderlands From: Wanda’s War View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 1 explores the turbulent history of Poland leading up to the Second World War, in particular, the borderland region of the Kresy that straddles the modern day borders of Poland, Belarus …	Marsha Faubert	15	2023	$1.50 Add
From Chapter 1 Private Grief From: Going Public View Between The Lines	-	Julie Macfarlane	25	2020	$2.50 Add
From Chapter 1 Homeland From: Fight or Submit View ECW Press	-	Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson	5	2020	$0.50 Add
From Chapter 1: Notes from a Blind Man From: Seven Fallen Feathers View House of Anansi Press	In this reading, Tanya Talaga recalls how she first became invested in the stories of the seven missing and murdered indigenous students while working as a political reporter covering indigenous …	Tanya Talaga	38	2017	$4.56 Add
From Chapter 2 From: Northern Wildflower View Fernwood Publishing	-	Catherine Lafferty	15	2018	$1.50 Add
From Chapter 2 What it Means to Be Colonized From: Legacy View ECW Press	This chapter includes a discussion of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as it impacts indigenous people. The author also discusses the ways in which trauma affects how individuals and communities …	Suzanne Methot	31	2019	$3.10 Add
From NEW! Chapter One From: Rooms View Coach House Books	The author talks about the process of starting this book, Virginia Woolf scholarship and her and her books’ presence/form in popular culture, and their own experiences in life and in school.	Sina Queyras	22	2022	$2.20 Add
From Chapter One British War Brides From: Captured Hearts View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter One explores the experiences of New Brunswick servicemen while overseas in Great Britain as well as the experiences of civilian women across Great Britain throughout the Second World War. …	Melynda Jarratt	16	2008	$1.60 Add
From Chapters 21-39 From: Double Pregnant View Fernwood Publishing	-	Natalie Meisner	42	2014	$4.20 Add
From NEW! Chapters 6-10 From: My Road from Damascus View ECW Press	Includes the chapters "My Penelope Wove Nothing", "The Berlin Wall, Saddam Hussein, and the Wooden Penis", "Rufaida (1996)", "The Bank of Little Stones (March …	Jamal Saeed	29	2022	$2.90 Add
From Childhood From: The Teen Sex Trade View Formac Publishing	A first person true account of a Black woman’s youth in Halifax, Nova Scotia entailing growing up with four of her eight siblings, the volatile relationship between her parents, and her …	Jade M. Brooks	18	2017	$1.80 Add
From NEW! Creatures of Impossible and Tremendous Beauty From: This Has Always Been a War View Arsenal Pulp Press	In “Creatures of Impossible and Tremendous Beauty” the author recounts their experiences with femininity and being “like a girl.” Discussing childhood expectations and …	Lori Fox	19	2022	$1.90 Add
From Curry’s Corner From: They Called Me Chocolate Rocket View Formac Publishing	Describes his childhood, growing up in windsor Nova Scotia in the 1940s and 1950s	John Paris Jr.; Robert Ashe	17	2014	$1.70 Add
From Discovering a Political Life From: How We Changed Toronto View James Lorimer and Company	Sewell recounts what brought him to getting involved in city politics and brings us right to his election as junior alderman in 1967	John Sewell	25	2015	$2.50 Add
From Down the Arm, 1941–59 From: A Halifax Boyhood View Formac Publishing	Landmarks down the Arm and into Halifax proper 1941-1959	Malcolm MacLeod; William D. Naftel	9	2014	$0.90 Add
From Early Life From: Asleep in the Deep View Goose Lane Editions	The early life of Nursing Sister Anna Irene Stamers is described as well as the history of her family in Saint John, New Brunswick, including the untimely death of her father and the financial …	Dianne Kelly	10	2021	$1.00 Add